BY: CONNOR BRIAN The first thing I noticed was the heavy taste of sulphur on my tongue. As the twin-engine plane jerked up and down, my eyes ranged across the black vastness of the Athabasca Oil Sands, and I thought…
The People’s Climate March wasn’t just a protest. It was a Populist Movement.
BY: TYLER FYFE PHOTOS BY: CONNOR BRIAN Just two days before world leaders are scheduled to debate environmental action at the United Nations Climate Summit, hundreds of thousands of protesters took to cities around the world in The People’s Climate…
What does life without work look like? Get ready for the post-labour economy
BY: JESSICA BURDE In the distant future, no one needs to work. Energy is available wherever people can set up a solar panel, windmill, or hydro-turbine. A.I. Wish units, distant descendants of today’s 3D printers, are capable of producing anything…
Garlic fights more than just vampires. It is also nature’s greatest antibiotic
BY: KATY WILLIS Hippocrates famously stated “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” Turns out medical pioneers, Hippocrates, Galen, and Dioscorides had more than just Greece and badass beards in common—they also knew garlic was as a…
The General of Kenya’s Mau Mau uprising: Beyond western portrayals of a broken Africa
BY: MARY BETH KOETH Among the most fertile land in Kenya lives a 92-year old man named Japhlet Thambu, whose tea farmhouse doors face towards the sacred Mount Kenya. Among these hills he is known as “The General” and from…
Telepathy is real: Why brain-to-brain interface is the future of communication
BY: KATY WILLIS For thousands of years, people have claimed to be able to read others’ minds. And for just as long, skeptics and scientific communities have widely disparaged these claims of “telepathy” as untruths, superstitions, and primitive ideas. It’s…
This is what the world looks like when you’re blind
BY: JONATHAN MAY Bordered by rays of red and violet, narrow bands of visible light are constantly relaying a massive amount of information to our brains. Our entire civilization hangs upon the ability to perceive the rapid vibration of that…
Why you should travel before you commit to school
BY ROB HOFFMAN The phrase “I just wanna get my degree under my belt, but I’m going to do a ton of traveling after university” gets passed around amongst university students more often than a joint at a Tommy Chong barbecue.…
Aerial photos of civilization give a new perspective on “progress”
BY: BERNHARD LANG When viewed from above, the human scale seems almost artificial. Like little miniature figurines we seem almost ignorant of the size our own existence. The Aerial Views of Bernhard Lang are proof that human beings are smaller…
Sleep deprivation could be the root of the student mental health crisis
BY: LILITH We’ve all been there. You procrastinated a bit too long on that paper and now you have one night left to cough up 5,000 words on how the minor characters in Macbeth somehow sparked the First Gulf War.…
Welcome To Cannabis County: The secret community of marijuana growers (Photos)
BY: H. LEE Drive a few hours north of San Francisco and you will find an untouched landscape. As the morning light breaches a thick layer of fog, the winding rivers and towering redwoods of the iconic American Coast slowly…
The Backyard Axe Throwing League (Video)
BY: PILGRIM “Here, kid. This is for you,” said Cookie, one of the league’s staff members. His voice drummed out across the warehouse like thunder as he approached me with axe in hand, his hair blowing back in the wind…
The daily routine of a “Ladyboy” in Thailand (PHOTOS)
BY: SOOPAKORN SRISAKUL There is a third gender, and in Thailand it is called “Kathoey”. It loosely translates as “Ladyboy”, the main difference between transgender women being that although Ladyboys often undergo “feminizing” medical procedures such as breast implants, silicone…
The Tiny House Movement gives a middle finger to consumerism
BY: CONNOR BRIAN The truth is I could not care less about keeping up with the Joneses, and, for the sake of your own happiness, neither should you. Your home represents what you value in life, and many are coming to…
These photos of Africans with mental illness show a disturbing assault on human dignity
BY: ROBIN HAMMOND Locked in tin shacks and chained to rusty hospital beds, Africans with mental illness have been abandoned by their government, neglected by foreign aid advocates, and persecuted by their society. Mental health professionals have fled South Sudan…
Astron 6 converted their used underwear into a TIFF film
BY: THE PLAID ZEBRA Being heavily deprived of sleep while filmmaking is a lot like being drunk—everything becomes inexplicably hilarious, and you end waking up confused and naked miles away from where you started. Enter directing/acting duo Matthew Kennedy and Adam…
An interview with Nick Loper of Side Hustle Nation: Everyday I’m side hustling
BY: JESSICA BURDE The brainchild of Nick Loper, Side Hustle Nation, is an online community for people who are ‘hustling’ to build side businesses while still grinding away at their suit-and-tie day jobs. Nick got his first corporate job in…
Repurpose This: A beginner’s guide to recycling on steroids
BY: KATY WILLIS Recycling only goes so far. Actually, it can cause environmental harm in its own right as chemical-heavy matter is melted and processed during recycling to form new items. That’s not to say you shouldn’t recycle; recycling is…
Can you have love without monogamy? – More than two
BY: JESSICA BURDE Polyamory is defined as having multiple relationships with “the full knowledge and consent of everyone who is affected.” I recently had a chance to talk with Franklin Veaux and Eve Rickert, authors of More Than Two, a…
Hitchhiking isn’t extinct. I took the trip of my lifetime for less than $250
BY: ROB HOFFMAN CO-AUTHORED BY: TYLER FYFE Is hitchhiking dead? Or have we wrapped our spirit in safety foam? Of course, the question immediately draws one’s mind to the horror film “The Hitcher” or the infamous “highway of tears,” a stretch…